tHreepink

tHreepink has 4+ years experience and specializes in pediatric, PICU.

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1. Need advice please on giving up on nursing tomorrow

   tHreepink replied to coldsteel1's topic in General Nursing

   Have you ever considered home health care or a doctor's office? Hospitals and nursing homes are not the only businesses that hire nurses. In home health care, you're only responsible for one patient, you make your own schedule (I did), and it's reall...

2. Have you ever been abused at work by pt or med staff?

   tHreepink replied to CrunchBerries's topic in General Nursing

   Wow! These are very disturbing stories. At this point, I don't even allow patients and their visitors to so much as curse while I'm in the room lol. I'm quick to call security for anything because people think they can do whatever they want to nurses...

3. Worst/silliest/are you serious pt complaint you've received?

   tHreepink replied to odaat's topic in Relations

   I had that one patient out of six that wasn't super needy that complained about me not rounding on him enough to know that he wanted to soda! He was a self care patient, so he could have gotten his own beverage. Anyway, also included in my patient lo...

4. Why does Texas Children's Hospital have such high nursing turnover lately?

   tHreepink replied to TomTheNurse1's topic in General Nursing

   It's mainly because the old CNO tried this "re-invention" that demoted seasoned nurses from leadership positions because they didn't have a BSN, only to place new grads there. The affected nurses felt disrespected and hurt, so many left or transferre...

5. New Grad/Hate My Job/Life is Miserable!

   tHreepink replied to Ruby Vee's topic in New Nurse

   (Sorry for the long post) Wow, this is exactly what I needed to see today. I'm in my first few months of med-surg nursing and I've had 2 awful days in a row(I feel that most of my days kind of suck, but getting off at 9 and 10 is especially annoying)...

6. San Jac College LVN to RN Bridge

   tHreepink replied to OrganizedChaos's topic in Texas

   I graduated from the transition program at South. It's part time (1 day class, 1 day clinical). Are you inquiring about the LVN/ paramedic to RN or the regular transition?

7. Texas Tech RN-BSN Summer 2014

   tHreepink replied to tHreepink's topic in School Programs

   Thank you! My mom has been a pedi nurse for forever, so I've always been comfortable around medically fragile children. She's also in the "I don't feel like going back to school" club. I understand because the prereqs alone take time, and all of her...

8. Texas Tech RN-BSN Summer 2014

   tHreepink replied to tHreepink's topic in School Programs

   Yes, I'm actively taking the required nutrition class, I'll be done with it in March. Good luck to you!

9. Texas Tech RN-BSN Summer 2014

   tHreepink replied to tHreepink's topic in School Programs

   Congrats! I live in Houston. I know it's 2 semesters, and I counted 10 classes. I had no idea we'd be done by December, I was thinking Spring. WOW! We will definitely be busy. I received my ADN in May and I'm working in the home care setting now. I'...

10. Texas Tech RN-BSN Summer 2014

    tHreepink posted a topic in School Programs

    Hello everyone! Has anyone been accepted into the summer online program yet? I found out this morning by email. I'm so ready and super excited as well. Of course, I have a ton of questions that I wish I could look up right now. Introduce yourselves ...